I’ve seen tons of publicity shots of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning fighter, one of the most controversial US military aircraft ever, but this photo left me speechless.

This F-35B Lightning II—captured during aerial refueling—totally looks like a spacecraft from a scifi movie. The near-perfect face-to-face view, the vortices behind the wingtips, the gradient gray of the nose; all make this photo just about perfect.